terminal color in ruby?

Question

hi is there a ruby modul for colorize strings in a linux terminal?

Answer 1

ehm ok google was my friend :)

http://term-ansicolor.rubyforge.org/

Answer 2

I prefer the Rainbow gem since it also supports Windows if win32console gem has been installed.

You can use it like this:

puts "some " + "red".color(:red) + " and " + "blue on yellow".color(:blue).background(:yellow)